San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-02-07
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unbroken.
Petroleum wells have been discovered
In Central Belgium.
Russians In Dobrudscba are agitating
In favor Of union with Bulgaria.
Arrests for election frauds continue
with alarming frequency at st. Louis.
The British at Mandalsp have oap-
tured the entire camp of the insurgents.
Superintendent Barrett, OF the Erie
road, promises an advance to all brake
men.
Sunset Cox will move for the eight
hour regulation to apply TO letter car
riers.
A life-saving station will soon be
established near the mouth Of the Brazos
river.
Suez canal is blocked by a steamer
aground, belonging to the Austrian
Lloyds.
Trade is generally paralyzed at New
York by the big strike. No signs of a
break up.
Contradictory reports continue as to
the real meaning Of military movements
In Germany.
A terrific gale In st. Georges channel
Friday prevent the crossing Of the
Tyne steamers.
BOulanger denies the recall Of the re-
serves or the mobilization orders for
French troops.
The Philadelphia tailors lock ont all
Knights ofLabOr cutters and trimmers
from their shops.
Poor old JEFF Davis is to have his
memory perpetuated by naming o Texas
county after him.
A mo quito. netting mandatory In
New Jersey burned. Loss $3.50, 900; in
surance unknown.
The sultan OF Zanzibar cedes rights to
the German East African society in the
Kilima Marc territory.
Greece is at peace, and King George
wants to put her on a war footing In Or
der to preserve the peace.
Rev. Father McGlynn is very seriously
Ill. and his faithful parishioners are wor-
ried over his failing heslth.
The Pensacola guano handlers are on
strike. All the negro gangs, brought In
to take their places, strike too.
The drouth commission Ia busy map
ping out its route 10 a regular see-saw
path across the stricken district.
The whites have driven the Chinese
from the San Diego, California hotel and
no more heather Chinee will wait there
The blessed rain is falling over all
Western Texas, and The dry and thirsty
land will soon be covered with pools Of
water.
Senator Reagan is in Washington and
the house committee on commerce, of
which he Is chairman, tender him ban
quet.
The judges have refused to transfer
the trial Of the government cases against
Mr.. John Dillon to the Conrt of Queens
Bench.
Louisville, KY, is fearing the coming
Of reported rise down the river; 70
families have removed from low
grounds.
Beecher in an alumni banquet calls
the knights OF Labor an abomination.
Tilton called Beecher a harder name
than that.
All the rivers 10 the Middle states are
on a rise, and great damage has occur
red In Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky
and Maryland.
The burning Of the state Industrial
school, at Rochester, was happily with
out loss OF life, though an awful calami-
ty was narrowly averted.
Later dispatches frem the continent
are Of more pacific character, but
peace is hardly to be expected, If the
present agitation continues.
The sum Of $4,000 all told is offered for
the arrest OF the men who attacked and
wounded the officers on the Pittsburg
and Fort Wayne train last week.
The Samuel Allsop Brewing company,
OF London, becomes a joint stock insti.
tuition and stock books open today. The
plant will be stocked for $1,000, COO.
The New York state legislature is in
vestigating the coal beavers strike. Tes-
timony Is being taken showing how near
starvation rates wages are reduced.
A broken rail at Woodstock Vt. threw
the Montreal express of the track into
the river, 80 feet below and some 60 per-
sons are reported missing and killed.
O'Brien, editor of United Ireland, will
not stand for seat In the house of COM
mons. He says he can be more useful to
Ireland outside OF those detestsble pre- =
cincts.
The English home secretary says the
BONeInmonI cdnnOt suppress puDllCa
tion OF divorce proceedings unless par.
lament gives 1t power by special legis-
lation.
The schooner Fred. W. Chase, ashore
on Folly Island, Charleston harbor, was
rescued by the life-saving crew on Nor
ris Island at the imminent risk of their
own lives.
The Limerick Municipal Council has
refused to celebrate the Queens jubilee,
on the ground that the Queen had visit.
ed Ireland only twice and never assisted
Irish charities.
Beaumont complains to Gov. Ross Of
the railway service from Sabine Pass to
that place and asks that the road be
compelled to repair its road bed and i'm
prove Its service.
Waco proposes to do some railroad
building on her own account. A few
gentlemen of means there have under
taken to see that two roads, one to
BRENNAN and one to Brentwood, are
built Immediately. When $780, 900 are
subscribed to each surveying will begin.
Working for Education.
Professor ROte was In Austin on Sat-
urday In attendance at a scholastic
meeting to memorabilia the legislature
upon important amendments in aehool